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auto-repeat

noun

  1. computing a feature of computer keys whereby a character is generated repeatedly as long as the user holds down the key in question
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. computing (of a computer key) to go on automatically regenerating a character
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

“Once you have some idea of what goes down well with an audience, you kind of stick to it. So if I’m telling a story about Jimi Hendrix that I’ve said before, then I’ll use little phrases, like ‘As I say’ or ‘I often tell the story’ to not sound like, oh my God, he’s on auto-repeat.”

Nonpartisan major-network comedy is used to mocking the foibles of candidates who accept certain standards of public presentation — Marco Rubio, say, going on auto-repeat in New Hampshire — but Mr. Trump doesn’t much care about those.

Loading Harry Chapin’s mopey “Cat’s in the Cradle” onto your iPod, and listening to it on auto-repeat all afternoon?

But every picture tells a story, and yours are stuck on auto-repeat, making the women look interchangeable, and you, like a stunted Hugh Hefner.

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